Apple immediately sells out of WWDC 2013 tickets

Tickets for Apple's annual Worldwide Developers Conference sold out in a matter of seconds after they went on sale on Thursday, marking the fastest sell-out in WWDC history.

Passes for the conference went on sale at 10 a.m. Pacific, 1 p.m. Eastern, and were priced at $1,599. By just two minutes after the hour, the event was sold out. In comparison, last year it took about two hours for tickets to sell out.

This year's conference. will take place June 10 through 14 at Moscone West in San Francisco, Calif. In a rare reveal, Apple has publicly signaled that it intends to show off the next releases of both iOS and OS X at this year's event. It's expected that WWDC 2013 will mark the first time Apple shows off both iOS 7 and OS X 10.9, and that beta builds of the pre-release software will be provided to developers for testing.

For those who didn't get tickets before they sold out on Thursday, Apple has promised to make video recordings of all WWDC 2013 sessions available online to registered developers.

The five-day conference is scheduled to feature more than 100 technical sessions presented by more than 1,000 Apple engineers. WWDC 2013 will also include hands-on labs aimed at helping developers integrate new technologies, as well as the annual Apple Design Awards showcasing some of the most outstanding iOS and Mac App Store applications.

Absolutely ridiculous. I had a ticket in my cart at 1 minute after the hour, went to checkout, it asked for yet another login at checkout, and then wouldn't let me press Sign In or Enter or Continue As Guest. My only option was to Cancel and try to add the ticket again (this was at 2 minutes after the hour), but it was already sold out at that point.

I don't understand why Apple doesn't just move this event to a bigger venue. There are thousands of events that take place all across the nation that host hundreds of thousands of people at convention centers, stadiums, etc. Yet Apple only lets in something like 6,000 people to this event?

I don't understand why Apple doesn't just move this event to a bigger venue. There are thousands of events that take place all across the nation that host hundreds of thousands of people at convention centers, stadiums, etc. Yet Apple only lets in something like 6,000 people to this event?

Do they have enough engineers to staff for a week if they has a larger venue?

I pulled up AAPL on Yahoo's finance page. Not one story on WWDC selling out in minutes. But there was a story from Investors Business Daily about Apple cutting its retail workforce (noted in Apple's quarterly SEC filing). :rolleyes:

So while it seemed like pre-announcing, and making the videos more available, would relieve some of the landrush problem, in the end it didn't really help the problem at all.

Yeah, announcing the videos certainly helped me choose not to try to join the rush. But the pre-announce of what time they'd go on sale today just made tens of thousands of people be ready with their browsers to purchase.

I don't understand why Apple doesn't just move this event to a bigger venue. There are thousands of events that take place all across the nation that host hundreds of thousands of people at convention centers, stadiums, etc. Yet Apple only lets in something like 6,000 people to this event?

This will be answered countless times, but...

Its because the constraining factor is not the size of the venue, but the number of Apple developers available. The AppleDevelopers/Attendees ratio.

Expanding the event to a point where each Apple body is overwhelmed by hundreds of attendees makes the event pointless.

I pulled up AAPL on Yahoo's finance page. Not one story on WWDC selling out in minutes. But there was a story from Investors Business Daily about Apple cutting its retail workforce (noted in Apple's quarterly SEC filing).

I'm completely conflicted about whether to pounce on the stock now.. it's risen a decent amt since its low of $387, but have no idea if it will continue or crater again. So fucking unpredictable.

Now WWDC ticket sales can be used as a measure in Apple's popularity huh? Then it must somehow affect the stock price, right? The average acceleration in ticket sellout time was 90% for the past 3 years. So if Apple doesn't sell out those tickets in 12 seconds next year, that means their growth is slowing. Stock falling!!!!